Northcliffe

[ nawrth-klif ]

noun

1. Viscount, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth.

Northcliffe

/ ˈnɔːθklɪf /

noun

1. Northcliffe, Viscount18651922MBritishWRITING: newspaper proprietor Viscount. title of Alfred Charles William Harmsworth. 1865–1922, British newspaper proprietor. With his brother, 1st Viscount Rothermere, he built up a vast chain of newspapers. He founded the Daily Mail (1896), the Daily Mirror (1903), and acquired The Times (1908)

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Miss Northcliffe had plainly shown her preference for him, and he was in love with her.

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Sent for Northcliffe and told him that unless my articles are treated with more respect I cannot go on and the War will be lost.

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I regard Lord Northcliffe less as an entity than as a symptom.

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A note is now sometimes heard here in undertone (Northcliffe strikes it)—that they don't want the Americans in the war.

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One day Northcliffe sent the military expert of the Times (which he owns) to France to investigate conditions.

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